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Instead he refers to a NYT review of GOING ROGUE, which is interesting, but also very troubling - it intellectualizes the idea of lying in an autobiography - arguing that it is standard and therefore of no great importance.

SF Tidbits for 12/31/09 2009

Like the other two, he intellectualizes far more than the average person and so while very concerned, doesn't convey that concern because he's just being too damn cerebral.

In Speech Endorsing Obama, Edwards Offers Effusive Praise Of Hillary 2009

To many women of color, she cares only about white women; to many white women, she intellectualizes things far too much and doesn't know squat about real women's lives.

Leora Tanenbaum: Goodbye, F-Word; Hello, 'Women's Lib' 2008

Any novel or writing that deliberately intellectualizes itself to be beyond the comprehension or enjoyment of the average reader has a tendency to irritate me in any case, and modernist novels do this all the time -- "Look how clever and avant-garde and breaking barriers and la la la I'm being, and Look, I have Something Important To Say, Or Not, because, Avant-garde!"

The almost certainly not last post on Voltron mariness 2005

LAMB: I don't know if this is fair, but if there were somebody that you would pick to sit in that chair that has the direct opposite point of view that you have, but intellectualizes all that, who would that be?

Tenured Radicals 1990

The serial killer rationalizes and intellectualizes his murders similarly, by purporting to "liberate" or "deliver" his victims from

Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin

The cheek was, perhaps, slightly sunken, but it could not be more pallid than when last beheld; and but for that nameless quietude -- that "rapture of repose," as Lord Byron well expresses it -- that placid languor which sleeps on the features, which illness always creates and which spiritualizes and intellectualizes the most common features, the invalid might be supposed to be enjoying the most quiet slumber.

Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

But the Washington weather-bureau intellectualizes this disorder by making each successive bit of Boston weather EPISODIC.

Pragmatism William James 1876

Second table: 500 random words 1600-1899 uncharacteristic intellectualizes

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] RonLar 2010

He intellectualizes songwriting to levels far beyond the average musician, and gives almost holy meaning to his favorite artists.

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